We have just begun eight months of intense concentration on Australia in our
sporting lives, so we’d better get used to a certain amount of whining.
Three rugby internationals with the Lions will be followed by ten Ashes
Tests home and away. And already everybody involved is beginning to get into
the mood. David Warner, the Australia batsman, did so by throwing a punch at
Joe Root, of England. He got a thickish outside edge, much as you’d expect,
and was then caught in the tabloids.

Again.

The England cricket team are actually looking pretty good for the Ashes, and